Following the death of his mother Debbie Nelson, Eminem shared that he has been gearing up to perform three international concerts, saying, “Middle East run kicks off this week. Pull up!!!”
Eminem is losing himself in the music.
Shortly after the death of his mother Debbie Nelson, the “Houdini” rapper returned to social media to share that he’s been spending his time preparing to play several international shows in Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
“‘Well if you want Shady, this is what I’ll give ya…'” Eminem (real name Marshall Bruce Mathers III) wrote in a Dec. 4 Instagram post. “MIDDLE EAST 2024 RUN kicks off this week. Pull up!!!”
His concert dates kick off at Abu Dhabi’s Formula 1 Grand Prix on Dec. 7, four days after a rep for the Grammy winner confirmed to E! News that his mom passed away following a battle with advanced lung cancer. She was 69. News broke back in September that the 69-year-old had been battling a terminal illness.
And while Eminem hasn’t spoken out directly on her death, he’s previously opened up about his tumultuous childhood with Debbie, who married his dad Marshall Bruce Mathers Jr. when she was 15 and gave birth to Eminem 16 months later.
Back in 2004, the 52-year-old—who accused Debbie of abusing prescription pills when he was young on his 2002 hit “Cleanin’ Out the Closet”—got candid about the challenges of gaining custody of his half-brother Nathan “Nate” Mathers, now 38, after Nate was put into foster care at age 8.
“When he was taken away I always said if I ever get in a position to take him, I would take him,” the rapper told Rolling Stone at the time. “I tried to apply for full custody when I was 20, but I didn’t have the means.”
He continued, “I cried just going to see him at the foster home. The day he was taken away, I was the only one allowed to see him. They had come and got him out of school. He didn’t know what the f–k was going on.”
Eminem was declared his brother’s legal guardian when Nate was 16, and the 8 Mile star has since changed his perspective on his mother—though he admitted in 2009 that they had become estranged.
“I do love her and I think I got a better understanding of what she was going through or what she may be going through, now that I see myself and how I actually became,” he told BET’s 106 & Park in 2009. “I think that’s there a little compassion factor that goes with that.”
For a deeper dive into Eminem’s family tree, keep reading.
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Kim Mathers
Born Kimberly Ann Scott, the Michigan native was Eminem’s high school sweetheart. She welcomed their daughter Hailie Jade in 1995.
Kim was married to the rapper from 1999 to 2001, and briefly again in 2006. Their tumultuous relationship has been referenced in several of Eminem’s songs, including “’97 Bonnie & Clyde,” “Puke” and “Bad Husband.”
“In our relationship, there’s a pattern,” Kim said of their on-and-off romance in a 2007 interview with 20/20. ” We’ll have two good years and then it will go bad for some reason. It’s like a two-year max with us and we hadn’t reached the two years yet. I just didn’t want to rush into anything before the two years.”
However, Kim noted that Eminem has always been an “excellent” father.
“He loves the kids very much,” she shared. “He’s always lending a helping hand.”
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Hailie Jade Scott
Eminem and Kim welcomed Hailie on Dec. 25, 1995. According to music star, her birth was a “real wake-up call” to “get my a– in gear.”
“Everything that I am doing right now is for Hailie,” he told Q magazine in 2001. “The money—it’s for her college.”
She spent most of her youth under Eminem’s 15,000-square-foot roof in the Detroit suburbs, before attending Michigan State University to study psychology. There, she met her now-husband Evan McClintock, who she married in May 2024 after getting engaged the year prior.
“She’s doing good,” Eminem said of Hailie during a 2020 episode of Hotboxin’ With Mike Tyson, adding that the influencer—who now goes by Hailie Jade—graduated from college with a 3.9 GPA. “She’s made me proud for sure.”
In October 2024, Hailie announced her pregnancy with her and Evan’s first child, a baby boy.
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Alaina Marie Scott
Born on Feb. 22, 1993, Alaina is the daughter of Kim’s sister Dawn Scott.
She was adopted by Eminem in the early aughts due to her mother’s struggles with addiction. “I have full custody of my niece and joint custody of Hailie,” the 8 Mile star told Rolling Stone in 2004. “I was always there for Hailie, and my niece has been a part of my life ever since she was born. Me and Kim pretty much had her, she’d live with us wherever we was at.”
Having been largely raised by Eminem, the Oakland University alum calls him “dad” and had him accompany her down the aisle when she wed Matt Moeller in June 2023.
“He wasn’t going to miss that,” she told People after the nuptials, during which Hailie served as a Maid of Honor. “None of this would have been possible without my dad. I’m beyond blessed.”
Her mother passed away in 2016 at the age of 41.
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Stevie Laine Scott
Kim welcomed Stevie on April 16, 2002, with her then-boyfriend Eric Hartter. Eminem legally adopted Stevie in 2005, when he reconciled with Kim.
Stevie came out as nonbinary in August 2021, sharing in a TikTok video that they identify using “all pronouns.”
They added in the caption, “forever growing and changing.”
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Debbie Nelson
Born in 1955 at a military base in Kansas, Debbie is the mother of Eminem.
She married the “Without Me” artist’s father Marshall Bruce Mathers Jr. when she was 15, according to her 2008 memoir My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem. She became pregnant with Eminem 16 months later and relocated to Michigan, where her maternal grandmother lived.
Debbie and Eminem’s strained relationship has been documented in several of his songs, including his 2002 smash hit “Cleanin’ Out My Closet.” In the track, he alleged that Debbie abused prescription pills when he was young—which she denied in her autobiography.
“What mother wants to be known as a pill-popping alcoholic who lives on welfare?” she wrote. “None of it was true, but the fibs kept getting bigger, and ultimately Marshall and I became estranged.”
However, Eminem has since expressed regret in airing out his family drama. In his 2013 song “Headlights,” he rapped, “I went in headfirst, never thinking about who, what I said hurt / In what verse, my mom probably got it the worst.”
Nelson died at the age of 69 in 2024 following a battle with cancer.
